Jobs, fresher vacancy - Senior Delivery Manager • UK

Company: Appvia

UK

Senior Delivery Manager - Appvia Location: London, UK (Hybrid ~ 2 days in office per week)Contract: Permanent, Full-timeSalary: £60,000–£80,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + BenefitsAbout UsAt Appvia, we're specialist platform engineering consultancy and product house committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support and accelerate our clients' cloud adoption journey. We’re looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join the team and help lead the delivery of multiple projects within private and public sector clients.We’ve built our reputation working with some of the UK’s most complex and highly regulated environments, including central government and financial institutions, where we help customers cut through complexity and deliver lasting change.About the roleThis role is initially focused on a new customer engagement working hard to deliver an Azure cloud migration and set up platform engineering best practices . As a Senior Delivery Manager, you take a lead role and will be a key decision maker, liaising with senior internal and 3rd party stakeholders who are involved in some of the most cutting-edge skills and topics within Cloud, Data and AI solutions.You will have a strong background and extensive experience delivering cloud platforms and migrations. You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and use your expertise to direct, advise and support your team to deliver high-quality services, engaging with wider teams and stakeholders to manage opportunities, risks and escalations, ensuring the quality of the service being delivered meets business needs.Interview process - 3 stageInitial conversation with our Talent Acquisition ManagerTechnical Interview with the Delivery team member Leadership Final InterviewRequirementsAbout you You’ll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in leading an Engineering Team in Agile and DevOps best practices. You’ll also be able to talk to us about your:Knowledge of continuous integration, deployment practices and platform engineering principles.Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability.Understanding of industry best practices.Project Management experience.Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal.on goal.Key Responsibilities Leading agile ceremonies including stand-ups, backlog refinement, planning and retrospectives.Ensuring the DevOps team is self-organising, engaged, motivated and part of the agile delivery process.Engaging with technical architects, tech leads and peripheral delivery teams to facilitate solutions definitions for our clients.Ensuring the detailed capture of technical work items on the product backlog and ensuring they are estimated with agreed acceptance criteria.Working with internal and client leads to prioritise backlog and communicate the progress of these items as applicable.Ensuring appropriate technical documentation is created and shared with the relevant people.Fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing between the engineering team and client teams, such as scheduling and managing show & tells.Engaging with project and GTM teams on the progress of deliverables and communicating cloud platform dependencies to our clients as necessary.Producing and distributing regular updates on delivery, impediments and issues.QualificationsCertification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) is highly desirable, e.gMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator AssociateAWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate BenefitsWhy join Appvia?We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.What’s on offer?⚖️ Work-life balanceFlexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of workHybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidaysAn additional day off for your birthdayEnhanced maternity and paternity to full payWorkplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents For your well-beingFull Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%Death in ServiceCycle to Work schemeElectric Car SchemePension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savingsEmployee Assistance ProgrammeFree hygiene products available in the London office Mental health supportFree therapy through AXAAccess to the Headspace AppTrained Mental Health First Aiders Other fun perksLearning budget of £1,000 a yearYour own MacBook Pro while you work at AppviaDog friendly officeWear what makes you comfortableFree snacks in the officePool table, ping pong table & darts board! Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more...But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.